Yup, completely agree -- Walmart could completely swing the numbers the other way. Campaigns like this are notoriously difficult to quantify. I'm sure that Old Spice is thrilled with the campaign.
Sure, I recognize that these prints may not have mass appeal, but wouldn't it behoove the historical society to try and get some help to find the FEW people that would actually pay for the physical prints at all?
I mean, the images on the site are low resolution and already have a big watermark on them, so I just don't see why the big copyright warning is even necessary.
Printroom even has a warning for the copyright setting when you create a gallery:
"We recommend that you only enable the copyright statement if you have particular copyright concerns, as it complicates the purchasing process and may affect your sales."
Aha.. yes. the left printout in a shared printer is a great analogy -- the printout would be face down, so you'd have to pick it up to look at what was on it, but there's no real social norm that would make you feel bad or creepy for just glancing at it.
Good one. Thanks.
Yah, I used the bus station analogy since Kerr used it in his post analyzing the case, so I just modified his analogy a bit.
The shared printer analogy works particularly well because it makes the additional distinction between a "shared space" and a "public" place.
Exactly.. thanks Rose, and thanks everyone else who cleared up some of the in-game mechanics. Yah, I was most fascinated by the fact that Blizzard was about to clear over $2M in just four hours..
And it's also interesting that there's a "waitlist" for the pets -- I assume that's to avoid the glut of minipets that Rose was talking about as well..
Aha.. interesting, well even so, the only reason Blizzard can do this is because they have such absolute control over the game's economics.
They're able to peg the value of the celestial steed at $25 because they have so many artificial restrictions on what you can do with it.
However, it's even more interesting that Blizzard themselves are bound essentially by the social rules (ie.. it's unfair to "buy" your way through the game) of the WoW community -- which is why, I suppose, this mount does not afford any in-game advantages, as Rose described.
Yes.. as you've all noticed, we've been trying out some new things here on Techdirt, namely the "sponsored conversations" -- we take our editorial integrity very seriously here at Techdirt, so we have been careful to always make the distinction that sponsors do not have any say over the content that goes into these posts, but rather, they are sponsoring the conversation around certain topics.
So, how it works is that, in this case, AMEX is sponsoring the topic around businesses and entrepreneurship -- and then we here at Techdirt just continue about our normal daily business writing about the things that we like to write about, and then, the posts that fall into this topic area get the sponsored treatment.
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In Fonovisa it was argued that people were going to the flea market FOR the CDs, so the thought was that the market knew about what was going on, and benefited directly from the infringing goods being there.
That said -- Fonovisa was in 1996. If Fonovisa were tried today, who knows if the ruling would be the same..
Yup.. you're completely right. If *I* were included in the book, I'd be thrilled.
But people *are* angry by the way they handled it, and it was shortsighted on the part of the publisher (who should know how authors think) to not realize that people would be pissed..
The fact that they said:
"We did want to contact each person quoted in the book; the publisher's legal advisors said it was not necessary under fair use guidelines."
Was a bit lame -- really? Hiding behind what your lawyers told you?
It's not a fair use/copyright issue at all -- the publisher here is most likely covered by fair use, but the issue here is that they clearly missed an opportunity to involve everyone in the project.
So, even though you may be legally "in the right" it doesn't necessarily mean that you should blindly proceed.
Agreed, there's nothing quite like a live symphony concert or a live baseball game.
But, for those of us that are limited either by funds or by location, it's nice that we now have the opportunity to catch some of the experience remotely.
Then, when we do get to see these performances live, we can appreciate them that much more.
Related to this, the researchers found that the *number of tweets* had a good correlation to the opening weekend numbers. The sentiment (positive/negative) of the tweets did not really affect the first weekend numbers -- however, sentiment did start having an affect starting week 2.
So, the moral of this story is that a ton of chatter (good or bad) will get you a great opening weekend, but sustaining power is netted by if people actually liked it...
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smaller site.
Alexa graph.
What does that make Reuters then?
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I mean, the images on the site are low resolution and already have a big watermark on them, so I just don't see why the big copyright warning is even necessary.
Printroom even has a warning for the copyright setting when you create a gallery:
"We recommend that you only enable the copyright statement if you have particular copyright concerns, as it complicates the purchasing process and may affect your sales."
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Good one. Thanks.
Yah, I used the bus station analogy since Kerr used it in his post analyzing the case, so I just modified his analogy a bit.
The shared printer analogy works particularly well because it makes the additional distinction between a "shared space" and a "public" place.
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And it's also interesting that there's a "waitlist" for the pets -- I assume that's to avoid the glut of minipets that Rose was talking about as well..
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They're able to peg the value of the celestial steed at $25 because they have so many artificial restrictions on what you can do with it.
However, it's even more interesting that Blizzard themselves are bound essentially by the social rules (ie.. it's unfair to "buy" your way through the game) of the WoW community -- which is why, I suppose, this mount does not afford any in-game advantages, as Rose described.
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Fielding the feedback..
So, how it works is that, in this case, AMEX is sponsoring the topic around businesses and entrepreneurship -- and then we here at Techdirt just continue about our normal daily business writing about the things that we like to write about, and then, the posts that fall into this topic area get the sponsored treatment.
Furthermore, as you've probably also noticed (or, for some, not noticed -- since they keep talking to Mike on every single post).. We're growing here at Techdirt, and as a result, we've been adding some more voices to the site. And with that, we've learned that we need to be more upfront if an author is presenting a viewpoint that may disagree with the prevailing view on Techdirt. Part of this experiment is to see what would happen if we added some different views on the site, but we should be more upfront and clear when that's happening.
Anyway, my apologies if this post was confusing in any way or made you think that we're not the same old Techdirt that you're expecting. Apparently, we're not immune to screwing up either, so thanks for calling us out on it and keeping us honest.
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That said -- Fonovisa was in 1996. If Fonovisa were tried today, who knows if the ruling would be the same..
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But people *are* angry by the way they handled it, and it was shortsighted on the part of the publisher (who should know how authors think) to not realize that people would be pissed..
The fact that they said:
"We did want to contact each person quoted in the book; the publisher's legal advisors said it was not necessary under fair use guidelines."
Was a bit lame -- really? Hiding behind what your lawyers told you?
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So, even though you may be legally "in the right" it doesn't necessarily mean that you should blindly proceed.
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But, for those of us that are limited either by funds or by location, it's nice that we now have the opportunity to catch some of the experience remotely.
Then, when we do get to see these performances live, we can appreciate them that much more.
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In anycase, I've added a break to make it a bit more readable. Thanks for pointing that out.
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So, the moral of this story is that a ton of chatter (good or bad) will get you a great opening weekend, but sustaining power is netted by if people actually liked it...
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